AN ACT relating to choking prevention in schools.

Short title: Landon's Law

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "anti-choking device"; require school cafeteria personnel and other expected users of the device to be trained if a school obtains an anti-choking device; provide immunity from civil liability for rendering emergency care or treatment with an anti-choking device or the Heimlich maneuver at a public or private school; provide that the Act may be cited as Landon's Law.

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This bill, called Landon's Law, allows Kentucky schools to obtain anti-choking devices and requires that cafeteria staff and others expected to use them receive proper training. It also protects school staff from civil liability when they use an anti-choking device or the Heimlich maneuver to help a student or other person in an emergency. Who it may affect: students, school cafeteria workers and staff, and public and private school administrators.

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